I doubt it. The phone was stolen in the US. Actually, it was stolen inside of one of the nicest gov buildings in Washington DC, which itself is really a shame. Most likley by the janitors, unfortunatley.
Honestly, the fact it was stolen inside a government building in Washington, DC makes me even more suspicious. You had some sort of evidence on that phone that someone else did not want to see.
That would make for an interesting story for sure.
The reality isn't so glamorous. The phone was stolen because I left it inside of a restroom stall. The particular restroom was one that's very secluded. Most people there didn't know about it, to the extent that, the only people I saw there with any regualrity were the janitors whose job was to routinely clean the place. Not sure what else to say besides that what you're suggesting is extremely unlikely.
What is wrong with taking profit from their work? All she had a resource she wouldn't have been able to create value from no matter how much time she had in life.
There are so many things wrong with the conclusion that whoever can make more value from something is entitled to take it, especially when we're talking about a human being.
I'll tone down the analogy so we don't go into abject examples that would still perfectly fit your point. You probably don't create that much value from your house, land, car, etc. But companies still aren't entitled to take them from you simply because they can make more money from them. If you are not willing to give them up for free you're contradicting your own point.
There's the mistaken impression that this is a 0 sum game and for companies to win, Henrietta Lacks and her family have to lose, it's expected of them. Or that the profits have to be exclusively on the company's side.
Privacy implications aside, we're actually not talking about a human being. We're talking about a(n) (abnormal) cluster of non-critical cells in a human. You and I shed millions of these (all-be-it normal) cells everyday, in the form of skin flakes and hair. Similar if your skin is pierced, causing a bleed. Semen if male, mucosal tissue if female (and possibly the egg), feces, urine, all contain human cells. This isn't robbery.
Nobody is arguing that skin-cells that they picked-up off the floor is the same ballpark as a tissue sample that was taken in a biopsy, studied, and profited from.
This wasn't accidentally obtained. They stole a winning lottery ticket and didn't share the winnings.
This is a very downplayed interpretation. During your whole life you will only use 2-3 of your sperm/egg cells "productively". The rest are literally thrown away, just like your shedding skin cells. Would you be OK with someone taking and using them for decades without you having a say?
There are 2 aspects here. One is about ethics and privacy, someone took and continues to use these cells with no restrictions, like saying it's OK to have a slave because it was legal when you bought it. What other things are perfectly normal to take because you have more?
The second is financial, you're expected to pay through your nose for using a 5s song snippet but use a piece of someone's body should only benefit the the ones who took it. Blood donors get paid and that's nowhere near as unique as this.
I've seen people rationalize the Tuskegee syphilis experiment (people get syphilis every day anyway). Were you in her place you'd expect more of everything. More rights, more respect, more privacy, more money, etc. And I don't see anyone trying to fix past mistakes.
Yeah, what's up with this name? It puts me off immediately knowing of Moloch. Was everyone at Yahoo okay with this name as they worked on it? It seems so strange of a choice.
It's not a joke, it's just a name, so humor has nothing to do with it. The problem is that it's a weird choice of name. If someone named it "Hitler" or "Damnation" or "PoopEmoji" it would also be a bad name, but those would also not be jokes, just bad names.
In the Old Testament, Moloch was another tribe's god, and so was a competitor to Yahweh (the Jewish/Christian/Muslim god). The OT doesn't actually say there aren't other gods, but rather that you should only worship Yahweh. The OT describes Yahweh as one god among many others, although he does get credit for creation to make him seem stronger than those other gods. That eventually morphed into the notion that there were no other gods at all, many centuries later, and those competing gods got grandfathered in to being thought of as demons and devils within the framework of monotheistic Christianity (not sure about their role in Judaism). In a similar way, pagan gods got grandfathered in to being Christian saints in many cases, and pagan holidays turned into Christian holidays.
So: Moloch is a demon, according to Christianity. And I'm guessing the software involves a daemon process? So...yeah. Real clever. That's some really sophisticated humor there. Waka waka waka!
The hacker group on Secret, Strange, and True (TechTV series) was named Moloch. First time I heard of it. I don't know how much of that show was real or for show, though.
Yep. That reminds me, there's a major piece of OpenMPI called "schizo" that supports "multiple personalities" of runtime environment. I don't know how they got away with that one...
As mean as this sounds to read, it's the truth. I personally know families who had an autistic child, did their best to accommodate and integrate them, but the child grew up to be nonverbal, destructive, etc.
Of course it's not always true. The poster is right that autism isn't inherently bad, just different.
And since when do we judge human beings on their usefulness? Should we kill every non productive beings with that reasoning since they're not "useful"?
They'll probably say no, but their kid is useless socially, economically, etc. Can't have a job, can't help others, can't have friends, can't have a normal life, hell can't even have a life.
>And since when do we judge human beings on their usefulness?
Since always? That's all we do. And this is not a case of someone who's in a wheelchair or deaf, this is someone who can't do anything other than yell and throw things. That's my experience with an autistic person at the "high end" of the spectrum.
Although the cost of cloud backups are egregious compared to the cost of raw storage, I'll pay a premium for the peace of mind that comes from letting someone else be held liable for storing my data and credentials to access it. I can easily upload/download files to google, iCloud, or Dropbox from almost any device knowing only my email and password, which I find preferable to having to remember an arbitrary 29 word seed. With the amount of exit scams in cryptocurrency, too, I just don't trust any project to continue to provide the same amount of utility that they do now, if they provide any at all.
I suppose you could use a custodian site to link an email and password to the seed, but then you enter a centralized third party to the mix.
I see value in Sia but it's just not for the average person in its current state.
You could store your Sia seed for free on Google Drive. That way you get the benefit of Google being "liable" for your data and credentials, but with the much lower storage costs of Sia. Yes, it's a centralized third party, but you already implied you have no problem with that.
Sia's seeds are ridiculous-- the 29 words provide 300 bits of entropy. 100 bits would be a sufficient security margin against brute forcing, assuming a modern memory-hard KDF like Argon2.
With a 100 bit password, assuming every flop of the 1.8 exaflops of the Top500 supercomputers tested a new password, it would still take 25,000 years to crack. Key stretching should add at least 30 bits of security by taking a billion operations--
Here's what 100 bits of security margin looks like with a more sophisticated scheme (abbrase): "Hope raised between unpleasant bellows. Devil rode sullenly, refugees waiting." => (first three letters) hopraibetunpbeldevrodsulrefwai.
Considering the fact that 1 USB C Thunderbolt port can power a dock that could do multiple HDMI, Ethernet, USB, VGA, etc, I agree completely and I hope that they release a Raspberry Pi4C.
> Under this model, each SM on an NIVIDA GPU corresponds to a more traditional CPU core. These SMs would contain some number of 32-wide vector registers. It seems that CUDA exposes operations on vector registers as a warp. They appear to be 32 threads because each instruction on 32 lanes at once, while the threads must proceed in lock step because they are actually a single stream of instructions.
>Is vector processors being open-source a desirable quality (compared to general attractiveness of open-source)?
Absolutely. Imagine an initiative to create a standardized open-source GPU for Linux? This vector processor could provide open source silicon IP to help build it.
This chip is just another step towards fully open-source systems.
>Going home feels so meh... I can go work through more Sherlock Holmes videos or Netflix series or work on music or art, but there is no one to share with, no one to talk to throughout the day, no one to engage with on my passions. I just kinda laze about without more contact.
Invite someone over!
>If anyone in Providence, RI wants to hang, let me know!
I actually live in Cranston, lol. You like biking? Cryptocurrency? Music production?
Hecks yeah! I bike around East Bay Path, Blackstone River Path, I also love to ride around the Boulevard on the East Side.
What kind of music are you into? I play piano, a buddy of mine is into guitar and Linnstrument. We may be having a board game night tonight actually, been looking forward to it, LMK if you want to stop by.
A lot that I've read in the past few years read like AI has written them. It wouldn't surprise me if major news publishers removed writing positions and replaced them with AI.
